Collin is a five year old boy from Grand Rapids, Michigan who heard about Drop in the Bucket because of another amazing kid named Ellie.  Collin on hearing about everything Ellie is doing to raise money for a well and decided he wanted to help too. Collin decided he would raise money by selling snacks at his garage sale and raised $66 in one afternoon.

In February students at the Wheatlands Elementary School in Aurora, IL held a "Penny War" to raise money help build a well for a school in Africa. Throughout the year the school had been practicing acts of kindness and had made several donations to organizations in their community. This time they decided to take their kindness global and make a difference to children in another part of the world. Thank you to everyone who participated…

6 year old Ellie was shocked to hear that children in Africa did not have clean water, so she went to her school and asked them if they could help her get a well built. With a little help from her Mother, Ellie designed a bracelet that said H2O=Life to sell as a school fundraiser. That isn’t all she has planned though, Ellie wants her school to pay for an entire well. So Ellie and…

Hannah and her friend Sam are freshmen in high school. They recently sold hundreds of bracelets around their school and community and raised almost $1,000. The bracelets said "Mina Nika" which is the zulu translation for "I Give".

The student Council and Penny Harvest Committee from the Bronx Charter School for Excellence collected funds for a Penny Harvest campaign and raised $500 for Drop in the Bucket. The students fervently collected loose change from classrooms and then developed a round table forum to discuss where they would donate the money they raised. After several meetings and a lot of research they selected Drop in the Bucket. We would like to extend a huge…

Storm heard about the water crisis from members of his family that were planning fundraising ideas and decided that he wanted to help too, so he started Storm's Drop in the Bucket Lemonade Stand! $1/Cup $1/water. Storm said "I am raising money for kids to have water in Africa so they don't get sick anymore." He's already raised $185 and is planning on raising $2000. Thanks Storm you are amazing!

For his Birthday, Seven year old Max wanted to do something to help children in Africa. He also wanted to make sure he and all his friends had fun, so they found a laser tag facility and booked the party there. Max wanted his friends to come and have fun, eat cake play games and instead of gifts make a donation.

There's no age limit on having a big heart. Six year old Megan from New York heard about the water crisis in Africa and wanted to help. Megan held sponsored read-a-thons amongst other things and managed to raise $1000 all on her own.